Search Results: thirty years of shikar by braddon sir edward

William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. First edition, first printing. Bookplate, dark tide mark to upper corner of first 20 and last 10 page, water damage to upper portions of boards, still a good copy with hinges firm and internally clean.. Green cloth pictorially stamped in black and gilt.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. Octavo, x, 374 (last the colophon), [2] (publisher's advertisements), 32 (publisher's catalogue dated 4/95) pages with illustrations plus a frontispiece and a large folding map. Black- and gilt-pictorial green cloth a litle rubbed and marked, with light wear to the extremities; contemporary Port Augusta Institute inkstamp on an early blank page and the bottom corner margins of page 321 (with a smaller one at the head of the first page); short tear to the map neatly sealed; mild signs of age and use; overall a very good copy. Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon KCMG (1829-1904), civil servant and politician, spent the years 1847 to 1878 in India, mainly as an administrator in the Deoghar division and the 'recently annexed province of Oudh.... much of his time was spent in the saddle', and much of this memoir is devoted to big game hunting. (Indeed, 'shikar' is an Urdu/Hindi… Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. FIRST EDITION. With lovely text illustrations and large folding colored map. Publisher's cloth, a bit worn on the edges of the spine, and with a small label of the Norfolk & Norwich Library on the front cover and large bookplate of the Library on the front paste-down; minor browning and spotting to preliminary and endleaves only, other wise a very nice copy. First edition of the memoirs of Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon, KCMG (1829-1904) following his departure from India (he had previously published Life in India in 1872) where he had been a government magistrate. In 1878 he moved to Tasmania, becoming a member of Parliament in 1879. He later represented Tasmania on the Federal Council, the predecessor to the Constitutional Conventions of the 1890's. He was a member of the first Australian parliament in the House of Representatives (at the age of 72 the oldest member ever elected up to that time). He ultimately became the Premier of… Read More